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• alerts on new threats to Florida's environment
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This week, the Florida legislature voted to implement Amendment 4, a measure over seventy percent of voters approved last fall. The bill, SB90, extends the tax credit on solar equipment for businesses, which is already in place for homeowners. The bill now goes to Governor Rick Scott.

As the Trump administration considers sweeping budget cuts that would threaten environmental protections nationwide, hundreds of Tampa Bay residents joined elected officials and organizations for the Tampa Bay People’s Climate March to call on Tampa to commit 100% clean, renewable energy.

More than two dozen organizations in Tampa Bay will rally for theTampa People’s Climate March to raise awareness about climate change and its regional impacts, and to provide avenues for people to take action.

Solar power grew at a record-breaking pace in 2016. The United States now has 42 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy capacity, enough to power 8.3 million homes and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 52.3 million metric tons annually.1 Hundreds of thousands of Americans, especially in our cities, have invested in their own solar panels or solar projects in their communities and millions more are ready to join them.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- In a major victory for whales and other sea creatures, today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) denied all pending permits for seismic air gun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean.